Ultrafast Manipulation of Self‐Assembled Form Birefringence in Glass

Shimotsuma, Yasuhiko; Sakakura, Masaaki; Kazansky, Peter G.; Beresna, Martynas; Qiu, Jing; Miura, Kiyotaka; Hirao, Kazuyuki

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“…It is an indication that the rate at which the energy is deposited into the glass affects the development of nanogratings. Shimotsuma et al observed a reduction of the laser induced birefringence with increasing repetition rate when irradiating silica glass with 70 fs [22]. Our experiments with 600 fs pulses follow the same trend [ Fig.…”

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Femtosecond versus picosecond laser machining of nano-gratings and micro-channels in silica glass

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Femtosecond versus picosecond laser machining of nano-gratings and micro-channels in silica glass

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“…5,9 The effect of nanograting formation has already found numerous applications for polarization control devices [10][11][12] and microfluidics. 13 More recently, the subwavelength nanostructures were also proposed for rewritable polarization multiplexed optical memory, 14 where the information encoding would be realized by means of two birefringence parameters, i.e. the slow axis orientation (4th dimension) and strength of retardance (5th dimension), in addition to three spatial coordinates.…”

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“…1) and rewritable polarization multiplexed optical memory [7], where the information encoding is realized by means of two birefringence parameters, i.e. the slow axis orientation (4th dimension) and retardance (5th dimension), in addition to three spatial coordinates (Fig.2).…”

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Material processing with ultrafast lasers has attracted considerable interest due to a wide range of applications from laser surgery and integrated optics to optical data storage, 3D micro-and nano-structuring [1,2]. A decade ago it has been discovered that under certain irradiation conditions ordered sub-wavelength structures with features smaller than 20 nm can be formed in the volume of silica glass [3]. The effect of nanograting formation has attracted considerable interest with proposals of applications ranging from nanofluidics [4,5] to polarization control devices [6].More recently, the self-assembled sub-wavelength nanostructuring have been proposed for fabrication of vortex polarization converters ( Fig. 1) and rewritable polarization multiplexed optical memory [7], where the information encoding is realized by means of two birefringence parameters, i.e. the slow axis orientation (4th dimension) and retardance (5th dimension), in addition to three spatial coordinates (Fig.2).A remarkable effect has also been discovered, referred to as quill or calligraphic laser writing, which reveals strong dependence of the material modification, in particular the self-assembled sub-wavelength structures in glass, on orientation of the writing direction relative to direction of the pulse front tilt [8][9][10]. Moreover, evidence of the first order phase transition associated with self-assembled nanostructures formation was revealed and supercooled state of laser damage was observed using pulses with tilted intensity front. More recently it has been demonstrated that the tip of an ultrafast laser quill has a property that is very different from an ordinary quill [11]. Specifically, the modification of glass can be controlled even in stationary conditions by the mutual orientation of light polarization azimuth and the pulse front tilt. Figuratively, the polarization can be used as a sharpening blade for the ultrafast light quill. The demonstrations of self-assembled nano-structuring and employing mutual orientations of beam movement or the light polarization plane and pulse front tilt to control interaction of matter with ultrashort light pulses, open new opportunities in material processing.

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Ultrafast Manipulation of Self‐Assembled Form Birefringence in Glass

Cited by 210 publications

References 33 publications

Femtosecond versus picosecond laser machining of nano-gratings and micro-channels in silica glass

Femtosecond versus picosecond laser machining of nano-gratings and micro-channels in silica glass

Exciton mediated self-organization in glass driven by ultrashort light pulses

Harnessing Ultrafast Laser Induced Nanostructures in Transparent Materials

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